Then there was that worrying survey from the Economist magazine which showed houses in Dublin are 25% overvalued against income and that property price growth in our capital has outpaced 22 other global cities over the past five years.

You get the feeling something’s got to give, while Fine Gael want us to give them more time in office so they can oversee the disintegration of the health service and homelessness go from crisis to catastrophe.

Listening to Leo Varadkar, Paschal Donohoe and Eoghan Murphy is like tuning into a broadcast from a parallel political universe where everything appears real but is actually a Matrix-like false reality.

Indeed didn’t we learn this week Leo suggested creating anonymous accounts online to make positive comments about their policies which in reality are catastrophic.

Fianna Fail TD John McGuinness delivered a dollop of much-needed reality yesterday when he called for an election now and pointed out difficulties facing ordinary people are getting worse.

He told RTE’s Today With Sean O’Rourke “the issues are the same today as they were when this Government started”.

In fact, they’re much worse now. This winter we could see the number of patients on hospital trolleys break the 1,000 barrier and with a tsunami of evictions on the way the housing crisis could spin totally out of control.

McGuinness is absolutely right that people have had enough and it is past time Fianna Fail pulled the plug on what is a Cabinet of clowns.

Indeed if his party had more TDs like him they would be baying for an election instead of dreading one and propping up a Government which is ideologically incapable of helping ordinary people.

After his interview social media users were asking why this man is not leading Fianna Fail. He might be yet. I spoke to Deputy McGuinness in connection with the Irish Mirror’s campaign to stop the sale of family homes to vulture funds and he bravely called on politicians of all parties to “have the balls” to stand up to the increasingly arrogant bankers.

For anyone who remembers the run-up to what we now call the Great Recession it was a case of deja vu this week.